SELF-DRIVING DIARIES

Robert Underling, chief engineer at British robotics firm TrustUs Laboratories, brings exclusive updates from the autonomous tech front line

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ROBOTAXIS ARE THE MOST THRILLING promise of our driverless future! Who wants to be driven home by a human who actually knows where they're going, when they could instead put their fate in a faceless automaton developed by a weird billionaire?

TrustUs Laboratories is, of course, at the forefront of the robotaxi revolution. This month, we received permission to run autonomous driving trials on the public roads of our home town of Nether Kettling, allowing us to conduct our first robotaxi journey with BORIS, our Ford Mondeo based autonomous rolling test bed.